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Sunday, December 03, 2006

It's that time of the year....

What's that aroma in the house? No... it is not the rich smell of Christmas cookies baking away, not yet anyway as we had another project that needed our attention!

It is the sweet pine smell from our fresh tree slowly wafting through each room in the house! It has been more than a few years since we have had a real tree - we just started using an artificial one for ease. We actually went out to a local tree farm, with saw in hand, and chopped down the Fraser Fir tree now standing in front of our bay window! Yes, it is still quite naked - we will put on the lights and decorate here and there during the next week.

Which one do you like to put up - real or artificial? We always had a real tree growing up - Mom would not have it any other way, so it sure brought back a bunch of memories!

I'm from Germany and we've always had a real tree. But then I guess that in Germany (and probably all Europe) fake trees are fare less common. I don't think I would be happy with a fake one, since I love the smell of the fresh tree and how the needles feel cool to the touch

We always used a fake tree although we did move into our house last year and bought a root-ball tree that we planted outside. It weighed more than 250 pounds and I scratched the floor removing it. It now lives at the end of the yard and looks very sad. Not sure if it will make it another year. We now have two fake trees.